chasing the focus

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/4/11 10:49 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out why a field is losing focus and I don't know which
> tools to use for the hunt.
>
> At the very end of a mouseUp handler of a button I have this:
>
> on mouseUp
> .....
>    focus on field "SearchTarget"
>    put the name of the focusedObject&  cf after msg
> end mouseUp
>
> And I do see [field "SearchTarget"] in the Message box, as expected. But
> then focus immediately shifts to the card.

If the button has autohilite set to true, it will remove the focus from 
a field when you click it. As soon as your mouseup handler ends, focus 
disappears. The fix it to turn off autohilite.

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